Instructions of VR Works Submissions for Festival International du Film d’Animation d’Annecy

Festival from 10th to 15th June 2019 Mifa from 11th to 14th June 2019 REMINDER – VR WORKS: There is still time to submit your works VR Works: new competitive category. Try your luck! To submit a work in the virtual reality category choose the registration form that corresponds to your film’s category and tick the “virtual reality” box at[…..] […]

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Computer Graphics Conference SIGGRAPH 2019 to Focus on How Technology Helps Us Thrive

Submissions Open for Summer Event in Los Angeles CHICAGO—Under the leadership of Conference Chair Mikki Rose, Senior Fur Technical Director at Blue Sky Studios, SIGGRAPH 2019 seeks submissions that cater to a central concept: Thrive. In its 46th year, the conference is set for 28 July–1 August 2019 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles,[…..] […]

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Netflix to Premiere Acclaimed French Pic ‘Pachamama’ in June

By Ramin Zahed | February 7, 2019 Netflix will premiere writer-director Juan Antin’s (Mercano the Martian) Cesar Award-nominated animated film Pachamama in June of this year. The film, which is produced by Academy-Award nominee Didier Brunner (The Old Lady and the Pigeons, Kirikou and the Sorceress, The Triplets of Belleville, The Secret of Kells and Ernest and Celestine) is a hybrid animation adventure film about[…..] […]

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Ron Miller, Former Disney CEO and WDFM President, Dies Age 85

By Animation Magazine | February 10, 2019 Ron Miller, husband of Diane Disney Miller, son-in-law of Walt Disney, President of the Board of Directors at The Walt Disney Family Museum, and owner of Silverado Vineyards, has died in Napa, California at the age of 85. “Everyone at The Walt Disney Company is deeply saddened by[…..] […]

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I Have a Question – Yan Kai, Chief Cartoonist of Mainland China

Yan Kai, China’s most famous cartoonist. One of the “Three Swordsmen” of Chinese Comic in the age of “Comic’s King”; author of the first new comic separate in China, “Snow Coconut”. Yan Kai entered the comic industry in 1994. Today, he is still committed to domestic original animation & comic business, establishing a company and[…..] […]

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Trailer: LAIKA Lets a Gentle Giant Loose in ‘Missing Link’

By Mercedes Milligan | February 5, 2019 In the new trailer for Missing Link, the latest feature project from Oscar-nominated stop-motion powerhouse LAIKA, audiences will get to know a kindly creature of myth and legend — and two intrepid humans dedicated to helping him find his place in the world. The spot also promises more of the innovative[…..] […]

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LAIKA Releases Trailer, Poster & New Image from ‘Missing Link’

Meet Mr. Link in the first official trailer for LAIKA Animation Studio’s fifth feature film arriving April 12, 2019. By Jennifer Wolfe | Thursday, November 8, 2018 at 12:26pm A new trailer, poster and image have arrived from Missing Link, LAIKA’s fifth animated film, introducing Mr. Link, the slightly silly, surprisingly smart and soulful beast,[…..] […]

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Good Deed Entertainment Acquires ‘Loving Vincent’ Documentary

‘Loving Vincent: The Impossible Dream’ opens in U.S. theaters March 2019 with double billings of the documentary and Academy Award and BAFTA-nominated independent animated feature. By Jennifer Wolfe | Friday, February 1, 2019 at 6:52pm LOS ANGELES — Good Deed Entertainment has acquired North American rights to the documentary about the making of the groundbreaking, Academy Award-nominated feature film, Loving[…..] […]

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Merging Hand-Drawn Tradition with CG Artistry for Mamoru Hosoda’s ‘Mirai’

The acclaimed director of ‘Wolf Children’ and ‘The Boy and the Beast’ paints an intimate portrait of a young boy’s vivid imagination and how it helps him accept the arrival of his baby sister in one of the last Japanese animated features to employ hand-drawn animation. By Jennifer Wolfe | Thursday, January 31, 2019 at 3:47pm Since[…..] […]

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Netflix Heats up with ‘Big Mouth’ Valentine’s Special Feb. 8ByMercedes MilliganPublished on February 1, 2019

By Mercedes Milligan | February 1, 2019 Nick Kroll , Andrew Goldberg’s edgy half-hour adult toon about the tribulations of puberty is returning February 8 with a brand new holiday themed episode, “My Furry Valentine.” Awkwardness, anxiety, crushes and confusion await in this raunchy romp celebrating “romance”! Big Mouth is a Netflix original series created and executive[…..] […]

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